Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher.

When you shift conversations and explore the greatness of your team members, you're likely to be a person who creates opportunities for their strength to show up on the job.

I can't afford to say yes to all my staff's desires, but one thing is certain – I can't afford the outrageous cost of not listening to their requests.

Real love is a humble receptivity of a silent heart that is prepared to melt and merge…

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

This morning I was ten years old. Tonight I am older than the stars.

Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

Education doesn't cease when you leave college or leave the university. Education is a lifetime process.

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

The only way to coast is downhill.